HardwareBanter - View Single Post - Sparkle 8600GT with extremely slow memory clock.HELP please

**Mr.E Solved!** · April 22nd 08, 12:57 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia

wrote:

I wonder how much performance hit the Sparkle card would suffer
compared to other high memory clock frequency card if it is only
600MHz to start with?

Consider yourself fortunate you don't notice the difference in your
configuration.

Texture memory has its uses and faster is better, but in many instances
fast enough is exactly that and isn't what's keeping you from faster FPS.

It's not a one for one sliding scale of performance, you can't make
predictions on min avg or max fps in a time demo based on a texture
memory increase. The application and how you have it configured makes
all the difference.

If you really are interested in learning more about the relationship
between core speed (and domain speeds) as well as memory speeds and FPS
performance, get familiar with 3DMark2K+6 and overclocking tools like
rivatuner. You can then compare component benchmarks with time demo
results and see what results in actual gains, and what does not.

As a rule of thumb, core speed increases are always welcome, memory
speed increases more welcome at higher resolution.